Title Warped mourning : stories of the undead in the land of the unburied / Alexander Etkind.

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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations.
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Series	Cultural memory in the present
	Cultural memory in the present.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Mimetic and subversive -- Mourning and warning -- The parable of misrecognition -- Writing history after jail -- On tortured life and world culture -- The debt to the dead -- The cosmopolitan way -- The tale of two turns -- The hard and the soft -- Post-Soviet hauntology -- Magical historicism.
Summary	After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense justice. Memorials to the Soviet victims are inadequate, and their families have received no significant compensation. This book's premise is that late Soviet and post-Soviet culture, haunted by its past, has produced a unique set of memorial practices. More than twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains ""the land of the unburied"": t.
Subject	Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Grief in literature.
	Socialism and literature -- Soviet Union.
	Collective memory and literature -- Soviet Union.
	Collective memory and literature -- Russia (Federation)
	Victims of state-sponsored terrorism -- Soviet Union.
	LITERARY CRITICISM/Russian & Former Soviet Union.
	Collective memory and literature. (OCoLC)fst01744423
	Grief in literature. (OCoLC)fst00947910
	Russian literature. (OCoLC)fst01102312
	Socialism and literature. (OCoLC)fst01123689
	Victims of state-sponsored terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01166343
	Russia (Federation) (OCoLC)fst01262050
	Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955- Warped mourning. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012028868
ISBN	9780804785532 (electronic book)
	0804785538 (electronic book)

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